11 AUGUST 1928, Page 12

WHERE ESSEX EXCELS.

The most gorgeous bit of England (apart from an acre or two near Reading) is probably between Coggeshall and Kelvedon ; and thereabouts the farming could scarcely be better. It is one of the oddities of our various little island that seeds ripen better in a little circle thereabouts than anywhere else ; and you must travel as far as California to see more brilliant patches of colour where the flower seeds —especially sweet-peas—are grown ; and richer seed crops of some of the kales, roots, and wheats.

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